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. ELECTRIC TOTALIZATOR Filed Sept. 29. 1950 l8 Sheets-Sheet U //1 z/ehfor Lance/0f Marlin Simpson Patented June 22, 1937 h UNITED STATES ELECTRIC TOTALIZATOR Lancelot Martin Simpson, Stanks, near Leeds, England, assignor to Automatic Electric Com pany Limited, Liverpool, England, a British,

company Application September 29, 1930, Serial No. 485,181

' In Great Britain October 15, 1929 8 Claims.

The present invention relates :to electric to- I talizators of the fully automatic type, and may be considered as a development of the arrangements described in my copending United States application Serial No..430,414 filed February 21, 1930. The object of the invention may be stated broadly to be the provisions of improved arrangements permitting ticket-issuing from a number of machines to take place at an extremely rapid rate so that the installation can readily be arranged to cater for very rapid ticket selling. The totalizator of'the present invention is particularly adaptable for use wherever it is desired to totalize values of diflerent denominations according to s class such as at theatres, coliseums, race-courses,

and the like, where rapid selling of different values of tickets of di'fllerent descriptions or classes takes place. For purposes of illustration, the present invention is being described in connection with the totalizing 01 tickets sold in connection with horse-racing.

It will be recalled that in the prior arrangement the connections between the ticket-issuing machine and the central equipment was made a over a group of signalling leads to a so-called decoding relay group associated with which was a constantly rotating switch, the wipers of which were connected in multiple with the switches associated with the other ticket-issuing machines,

so that when a contact marked in accordance with a sale of a ticket on a particular runner was encountered, the necessary signal was transmitted to the totalizing machine associated with that runner. The wipers-oi the various switches, however, were given a special phase relationship so that no two switches would be in a position to register sales of tickets for the same runner'at the same instant; According to one feature of Y the invention, greater speed oi working is attained in that in an electric totalizator employing rotating collecting switches for collecting indications from a plurality *of transmitting stations, indications are collected simultaneously over different wipers of 5 the same switch which may bear any desired phase relationship and hence will'p'reierablybe in alignment. 4 4

According to another feature oi! the invention, in an electric totalizator employing rotating col- 50 lecting switches, each corresponding to a particular indication, for collecting indications from a plurality of transmitting stations, indications of diil'erent values are collected simultaneously over,

diii'erent wipers oi the same collecting switch. a A further feature of the invention closely related to the features just mentioned is that in an electric totalizator having indications transmitted from a plurality of transmitting stations, in-

dications of one character are stored on a relay group, the registration oi. a predetermined number of indications serving to effect a marking in the bank 01' a'collecting switch corresponding to indications of higher denomination. The invention will be better understood from the following description of one method of carrying it into efiect which as a matter of con- ,venience in description assumes its use in connection with horse racing. This description is given by way of example and should be taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings of which Figs. 1-17, when fitted together in the manner indicated in Fig. 19, show the complete circuits of a totalizator installation, while Fig. 18 shows schematically the general layout.

A description will first be given of the general operation oi! the installation with reference to Fig. 18, whichshows a trunking diagram of the apparatus involved in the collecting oi markings corresponding to the sales 01!. tickets on one par-,-

-ticular horse from 200 ticketissuing machines or diflerent denominations. comprising 100 machines of 2/- denomination and 25 machines each oi! 10/-, 1, 10 and 100 denomination.

Assuming that the operator at the 2/- ticket! issuing machine SM receives a request for a 2/- ticket for a win on horse No. 1, he will operate the appropriate horse key on the ticket machine and 'will also move a common win or place key to the win position whereupon both keys are locked in their operated positions and a signal is transmitted in code to a decoding relay group designated DCRI in the main totalizing equipment. When this has been done, a

marking is extended from. the relay group DCRI to the appropriate bank contact of the horse collecting switch HCS which is in continuousrotation in order to flnd such markings. The horse collecting switch HCS shown is assumed to be that for collecting sales of win tickets on horse No. 1 and is provided with eight banks and associated wipers over which sales markings may be collected from as many as 200 machines of difierent denominations since each bank comprises 25 contacts. when the topmost wiper of the switch HCS encounters themarking from. the decoding relay group in question, a storing relay will be operated in the 2/- storing group designated SGI to register one unit, and at the same tended back over the leads to the ticket-issuing PCS. In this case also the hunting motion of the collecting switch HCS is suspended until the machine to initiate the ticket-issuing operation thereat, and when this is completed the keys which were locked in their operated positions are then automatically released. A similar marking is extended over conductor ill to the appropriate bank contact of a switch similar to HCS associated with the total win" totalizer, which amo rotates to find this marking and operate an approprtate storing relay in a group similar to SGI associated with the total win" totalizer. In a similar manner, markings will be collected from other bank contacts of the switch HCS whichare associated with other decoding relay groups similar. to DCRI', and when 10 such units have been stored on the storing relays in the group SGI, a marking is extended to the banks ofthe translated 1 collecting switch 'I'P, which thereupon rotates to find the marking and operate the drivingmagnet of the 1 counting switch PCS accordingly. During the transfer the translated 1 to the 1 counting switch, the collecting operation 01' the horse collecting switch HCS is temporarily suspended, and does not recommence until the storing relays in the group SGI have been released after the 1 markingghas been dilly recorded.

In similar mannerticket sales markings from the machine TM are registered on the 10/- decoding relay group DCR2 and from there will be collected over a difierent wiper of the a switch HCS and stored on the 10/- storing relay group BGI. Each time two such units have been collected, a marking will be extended to the bank of the translated 1 collecting switch Tl? whichl thereupon rotates to find the marking and operate the driving magnet 01' the 1 counting switch made 10 steps, thereby registering the equivalent translated 1 switch TP, or alternatively, theof 10 separate sales of 1 tickets, an impulse is extended to the driving magnet 01 the 10 count-.

ing swltch 'I'PS, and similarly when this switch has made 10 steps an impulse is extended to the driving magnet oi the 100 counting switch HPS'.

It is likely, thereiore, that at some period in the operation of the circuit, impulses will .be extended to the counting switches from the direct source by way of the collecting switch HCS,

and also from the indirect source by way of the counting-switch of-the preceding digit. Hence, in order to prevent the two markings from becoming confused, means are provided whereby the marking-from the. direct source will always take precedence over that from .the indirect source, and until both have been duly registered the operation oi. the horse collecting switch HCS is temporarily suspended.

When the end or the ticket-selling period is.

reached and the ticket-issuing machines are looked to prevent the issue of further tickets for the particular race, .it is probable that, various storing "relaysin the groupssuch as SGI and 3G3 will be in operated position, and the sales of tickets they represent will not have been reg- I istered on the main totalizing equipment, since as was previously explained it is necessary to store a definite number-of such units before the translated 1 switch T? is brought'into operation to transfer the marking on to the 1 counting 7 switch IEjCS'. Consequently, when the selling is stopped and the ticket machines are locked, the

stored units collecting switch SUC is caused to rotate in order to collect up outstanding markings from each storing relay in the group in turn, and transfer them to the magnet of the.2/- counting switch TWS, so that the remainder of the ticket sales onthis particular horse will be added to the display on boththehorse and total indicators. It shouldalso be mentioned that a'10/- counting switch T88 is provided and, in case the tramc from the 10/- machines was not undulyheavy, the storing group SGl might be dispensed with and the markings could then be extended direct to the magnet oi the 1.0/- counting switch. With the arrangement shown, however, indications from the 2/- counting switch TWS arev passed by way oi the 10/- counting switch TSS to the 1 counting switch PCS, and it will be noticed that the 10/- and 2/- counting switches are arranged todisplay on a single indicator, the alternate positions of the 10/- switchserving to operate a relay which advances the number displayed on the indicator by five units.

In case the ticket request had been tor a place instead 01' for a win, the win orvplace" key would have been operated to the place, position, thereby effecting the operation of a switching relay P at the main totalizing equipment which would transfer all the signalling leads extending from the ticket-issuing machine to another decoding relay group on which markings could be extended to the appropriate bank contacts of another horse collecting switch similar to HCS associated with the place totalizing equipment. In a similar manner the place decoding relay group would extend a. marking to the'bank of, a further collecting switch associated with the "total place" totalizer.

It itis desired to set up a ticket sale on a horse in the l i80 group, a separate ticket-issuing machine will be used which is connected in parallel with the i--40 machine so that the same coding leads may be used in each case. The operation of the win or place" key 01 this machine in either direction, however, completes the circuit of a relay designated CO in the main totalizing equipment to change over the code leads on to another decoding relay group capable of setting up markings on the banks of horse. collecting switches "-80. t

The general operation of the installation having been briefly described, a detailed circuit description will now be given, reference being had to the annexed drawings of which Figs. 1 and 2 show the electrical connections at a typical'illl ticket issuing-machinein which. accordingly the springs of the win or place" key for eflecting the operation of relay FEC are unwired.' Figs. 1 and 2 also show the arrangements whereby a number of machines may be automatically locked or unlocked at will from a central point. Figs. 3, '4 and ,5 show the win decoding relay group associated with the ticket-issuing machine of Figs. 1 and 2, and also the change-over relays PB and FEC which serve respectively. to change over .the signalling leads to another 

